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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






2. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






4. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






5. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






6. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






7. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






8. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






9. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






10. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






11. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






12. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






13. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






14. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






15. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






16. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






17. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






18. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






19. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






20. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






21. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






22. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






23. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






24. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






25. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






26. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






27. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






28. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






29. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






30. Feeling through fingertips






31. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






32. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






33. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






34. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






35. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






36. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






37. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






38. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






39. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






40. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






41. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






42. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






43. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






44. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






45. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






46. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






47. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






48. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






49. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






50. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi